Estonia eschews phone bans in schools and takes leap into AI

I happen to be an Estonian, but this comment is general: I wonder when teaching kids to be AI-tool-literate, would this also help teaching some critical thinking and reading skills when consuming information from social media and Internet.

Since AI does hallucinate, you have to be able to dig deeper into the sources of facts when needed, to make sure that you're not being hallucinated lies. The same skills ought to be applicable for critical thinking/internet news literacy, as that loud "news" channel or TikTok influencer might also be "hallucinating" lies for you for their reasons...

It will take acouple of years, but there will be strong proof of which type of education system works best.Estonia has made the hard choice to volunter there children is test subjects to an experimental technology with no track record, in the face of many other european countrys banning phones in schools, where at least the use of computer aids is limited to domestic settings where presumably there is a large variety of conditions and expectations in how technology is used.....vs, the many school districs world wide where internet access is still to slow and sporadic for use as a crutch to real learning and basic skills in traditional subjects. The whole thing will be self explecatory soon enough.

Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094169

Estonia, home of all the grifting startups due to their advantageous taxation is doing this? Seems in character.